Railway-track-aligning tool



Dec. 10, 1929.

c. A. GOFF RAILWAY TRACK ALIGNING TOOL Filed June 14, 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Dec. 10, 1929. (LA. GOFF RAILWAY TRACK ALIGNING TOOL Filed June 14. 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Dec. 10, 1929 UNITED STATES CHARLES ALFRED com, or GRAFTON, WEST VIRGINIA RAILWAY-TRACK-ALIGNING TOOL Application filed June 14,

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in tools for facilitating the aligning of railway tracks, and aims to provide a novel, simple and eflicient device of this character whereby the rails may be aligned in an easier and more expeditious manner than is now possible in the use of other device employed for thispurpose. Furthermore, the invention aims to provide a simply constructed hand operated tool that may be manufactured and marketed at low cost, the same including but few parts, and these so correlate as to reduce the possibility of disarrangement to a minimum.

With the'foregoing and other objects in view as the nature of the invention will be better understood, the same comprises the novel form, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings and claimed.

In the drawings wherein like reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device,

the handle bars being fragmentarily disclosed, and the parts being illustrated in the position they will assume when the rail is raised and moved to aligned position.

Figure 2 is a top plan View thereof, the

parts being shown in position whereby to receive the rail.

Figure 3 is a side elevation thereof.

Figure 4 is a rear end elevation of the device illustrated in Figure 1, and

Figure 5 is a fragmentary longitudinal section through the forward end of the device.

Now having particular reference to the drawing, the present invention consists of a somewhat elongated foot piece 5 of channel iron construction, the upper edges of the longitudinal side walls thereof being inturned to provide flanges 66, the forward ends of these side walls being tapered, while at the forward end of the bottom wall there is formed a depending flange for providing a gripping toe 7 to prevent the slipping of the foot piece. Projecting upwardly from the bottom wall of the foot piece adjacent the rear end thereof is an ear 8, while loosely pivoted thereto is the lower bifurcated end 9 1928. Serial No. 2 85, 144.

of a socket member 10 adapted to receive at its outer end a suitable manipulating handle 11. As disclosed in Figures 1 and 3, the side walls of the foot piece 5 are provided with openings at the opposite ends of the pivot connection between the socket member 10 and said ear 8 so that said pivot may be removed. Loosely pivotally secured to the socket member 10 adjacent the inner end thereof is a pair of forwardly extending metallic straps 1212 upon which the rails to be aligned are arranged, there being disposed between the forward ends of these straps 12-12 a roller 13 having rolling contact with the bottom wall of the foot piece 5 so that when the handle member 11 is raised from the position disclosed in Figures 2 and 3 to that illustrated in Figures 1 and 4, assuming that a rail has been disposed upon the said straps the straps will creep forwardly with respect to the foot piece and at the same time raise upwardly there from for raising the rail and moving the same into position. As more clearly illustrated in Figure 4 the roller 13 is arranged between the forward ends of the straps 1212 through the medium of a supporting pin 14, the op posite ends of which extend beyond the inner edges of the foot piece flanges 66 to prevent the raising of the rollerand consequently the said straps 12--12.

It will thus be seen that I have provided a novel, simple and extremely useful rail aligning device that is well adapted for all the purposes heretofore designated, even though I have herein shown and described the invention as consisting of certain detail structural elements it is nevertheless to be understood that some changes may be made therein without affecting the spirit and scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is A railroad track moving device of the character described comprising a foot memberof channeled construction, the flanges thereof 3 being upturned, the upper edge portions of the foot member being bent inwardly to pro vide guide flanges, a lever pivotally connected to the bottom of the foot member adjacent one end thereof, a bar pivotally connected to @1 the lever at a point inwardl from its pivot point, an anti-frictional r01 er at the opposite end of the bar for contact with the bottom of the foot, and having means associated therewith and projecting beneath the inward- 1y bent guide flanges to prevent the displacement of the roller from within the foot member, said lever being adapted to be swung downwardly so as to dispose the bar Within the hollow foot so that the top of the foot 7 may be positioned against the rail to be moved. r

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

CHARLES ALFRED GOFF. 

